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DOES ELECTROCUTION KILL?
TfHB QUESTION. of. whether eleo
I trocution always kills Is again
I at the surface in the east. Doc-
" tors are sometimes quoted on
both 'sides of the question Three
, months ago an interview was pub
lished In which a New York physician
cast grave doubts over the efficacy
of official executions In the electric
chair, lie related an Instance of the
most sensational character. After
- being placed in what was supposed
.if to be a proper contact with the cur
rent, a condemned man was taken
from the chair for dead. He was
laid on ft cpuch and to the astonish
ment of those present a faint flush
noon appeared on the cheek. Then
came a twitching of the limbs and
later faint heart beats. In 45 min
utes the' supposed' dead 'man had re
turned to complete consciousness
and the remarkable alternative was
presented of placing-the unfortunate
man a second time in the death
chair. This was done and within an
hour after the first attempt at exe
: cution, a second official electrocu
tion had, been inflicted, and, as the
' denouement showed, with more suc
cess. The physician -who related .the
Incident raised, the question, If, in
, other electrocutions, the attending
physicians had not, on many occa
sions, been the actual lnstrnmentall-
ties of death. It was a suggestion
of hideous Import and attracted wide
attention. . ,
. A new discussion of the efficacy
of the process has arisen over an in
cident that occurred the other day in
Pennsylvania.. A man received a
heavy shock from a broken trolley
, wire on a street corner and was
' picked up apparently dead. He was
taken to a hospital, where 'at first
the physicians announced that life
was extinct. After a considerable
- period he showed signs of life and
as a result of the work of a physician
. over him for several hours, he re
turned to consciousness. He was
able to converse,-but remembered
nothing of the shock with which he
had been felled. All that was clear
was that while the physicians were
working over Mm he experienced
great pain.
i Dr. Spitzka of the Jefferson medi
cal college says the Incident proves
nothing for those who claim ability
io revive me aeaa aeni out oy tne
..electric chair. The contact, he says,
was momentary and the voltage un
? known. The shock was probably
, received through clothing and upon
a dry skin. In electrocution, sponges
wetwlth salt water, press upon the
'shaved body surfaces and the shock
7 is great and prolonged. The tissues
v are torn asunder and the" blood
changed by the intensity of the cur-
rem. in snori, ur. fopitzka con
KsS -"..vr us
a-
may remain.
TAFT AND THE TARIFF
TN HIS recent speech at the meet-
Iiug vi ia vjqio aocieiy in New
York city Mr. Taft said. "I am
. a protectionist, wnlch state
ment elicited much applause, but
he had not finished- his sentence,
for he went on to declare that the
promise -of the Chicago platform
mut iw aejn, ua ig give nig in
terpretation of it, which is not at
iall T.be Interpretation of the stand
patters and over-protected Interests.
After quoting the platform, he said:
."What that means, as I understand
n, 13 teat tne cost or production
includes abroad a reasonably profit
or interest on capital, and so here
a reasonable Interest on capital, and
that that differs abredd from what
it ii here, and that. aU" that ,means
H V H J',,3 include the clenients if
i ' !, vMch include the raw
eludes, "there is no chance that llfeUtfcat of Professor Simon Newcomb,
material, cost of labor, interest on
capital, and perhaps other things
and so on this aide, and then you
reach the difference."
This la not ver clearly expressed
but seems to mean that' Mr. Taft
construes the "reasonable profits
of the platform to mean simply rea
sonable Interest on the capital In
vetted. And It may be reasonably in
ferred that the president-elect would
not consider 40, or 30, or even 20 per
cent interest on capital actually in
vested as "reasonable profits." So
far, Mr. Taft appears to be a better
tariff reformer since the election
than .he was during the campaign.
He undoubtedly desires sincerely a
considerably reformatory revision of
the tariff, and will use his Influence
to this end in a "Bane" and per
haps an effective way.
SOME RECENT HISTORY AND ITS
SEQUEL
R. WALDO COE3 of Portland Is
in Washington , on a mission.
He Is laboring, so the account
runs, to secure the withdrawal
of John C. Young and the substitu
tlon of John " If Into for the Portland
postmastership. It is further re
lated, that the plan has failed and
that Dr. Coe has proposed a com
promise providing two years more
for Mr. Mint p and the accession at
the end of that time of. Mr. Young.
This plan seems likewise not to have
met with favor, and the impression
is that Mr. Young will ultimately be
confirmed.
Impotency in this matter is the
price Senator Fulton is . paying for
the path he has traveled politically
for some months past. .Those friends
of Senator Pulton who followed him
Jn that path and perhaps counseled
him to persist In it are falling by
the same sword. It was destruction
for Mr. Pulton when he assumed the
unfortunate attitude of resisting the
electorate in itswish to choose sen
ator last spring. Senator 'Fulton
was repeatedly told in The Journal
that it would ruin him. His friends
were told in this newspaper repeat
edly that in taking $he same course
they were working out hjs destruc
tion. They were told this when they
passed at Salem and at Portland the
resolutions, denouncing Statement
No. 1. It was told to them by The
Journal that their course and Sena
tor Fulton's course was political
madness, and that It could have no
other outcome than a miserable fail
ure; "
They refused to heed the warning,
and the rejection of Senator Fulton
at the primary polls was the conse
quence, with that deadly warning
the madness of Mr. Fulton and his
friends should have ended, but it did
not. A folly 1 infinitely more irra
tional was undertaken. The infa
mous activity, waa engaged in of at
tempting to break down In their
Uledges men who had vowed to sup
port in the legislature the-people's
choice for senator. It was proposed
to smash the ballot 'box in Oregon
and set at defiance the will of the
electorate expressed at that ballot
box. It was a program of Inexcus
able folly, involving a moral stand
ard bo low and methods so anar
chistic and revolutionary as to every
where meet with condemnation. It
showed . on the part of those who
planned it a woeful underestimate of
the public conscience and a complete
lack of touch with the purpose and
civic conceptions of the Oregon elec
torate. It met with rebuke from al
most every newspaper in the land.
met with rebuke from the na
tional Republican administration. It
was countenanced nowhere, and de
nounced everywhere. It was the
price that had to be paid for a course
of political madness, a madness of
which, in kindness and constancy,
this newpaper repeatedly forewarned
Mr. Fulton and his friends.
Its logic Is that the Impossible
must not be attempted. The inevi
table cannot be prevented. The
hand of progress cannot be turned
backward. The tides of the ocean
cannot be arrested in their resistless
swep.- The breath of a butterfly
cannot turn back the onward rush of
the hurricane. The will of a deter
mined people cannot be overthrown
or turned aside. The lesson should
be accepted and a beginning be made
by Senator Fulton and his friends
along lines attuned to the heart
throbs of Oregon people,
MONOPOLIZATION OP ATHLETICS
P'
kARTLY IN SUPPORT of the
Chehalis county (Wash.) school
superintendent's opinion on
ii school ana couese aimeLicB is
. . . -
graduate athletic manager of Har
vard He is not against athletics;
on the contrary he says we need in
our universities and we suppose
this applies to lesser schools also
"not less athletics but more." But
be complains that under the present
system of intercollegiate contests the
benefits of athletics "do not reach
hundreds of young . undergraduates
who are 'dissipating their energies
in foolish living"; who. are merely
"lookers-on end pipe smoking
idlers." : He .says they should .be
Induced to undertake their own
physical development In a sane and
systematic manner and should ' not
be left to their own volition. .,
Professor Newcomb points ; out
that under existing conditions col
lege athletics are practically monop
olized, 'first, by a few men already
so splendidly developed physically
that they do not need them at all;
second, by rigorous young men who,
while undoubtedly benefited in a
I ' 1 ' "
way by the exercises, are In no abso
lute nMil nt them Th hruv nf
students, many, times' outnumbering
these two classes who need the ex
ercises to build up partially or feebly
developed physical, . manhood, and
who, if thus , assisted, will con
tribute to the community the largest
number of its most forceful citizens,
physique and mentality bothconsld
ered are practically ruled out of
participation therein.
There is in this and similar criti
cisms of men whose opinions are
valuable a subject for careful and
earnest study on the part of leading
educators throughout the country.
It Is conceded generally that a mod
erate, reasonable amount of athletics
is good, is even necessary, and the
elements of contest and sport cannot
be entirely separated therefrom; but
the point seems to be well taken
that athletics are not sufficiently
distributed, are too . much monop
olized, and that they should be
made more a matter of education
for all and less a matter of sport
for. a few. .
NIXE YEARS MORE OF "PROS
PERITY."
T OSEPH FRENCH JOHNSON,
I dean of the New York Univer-
I eity's School of Finance and pro-
J feasor of economics in the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania, recently made
a statement that is not very encourag
ing to the average wage earner. Pro
fessor Johnson figures it out .not
only that the cost of living has in
creased 44 per cent in the past nine
years, but that it is going to keep on
increasing for nine years more, and
that in 1918 prices of the necessaries
of life will be 80 per cent higher
than they were in 1897, when the
era of prosperity" began.
But how about wages? If they
rise in. proportion, all right. But so
far, they have not, and Professor
Johnson says that they will not. He
says it Is a law of political economy
that wages do not rise as fast or as
much as the cost of living, when this
oing up. So, he says, "the work-
n will find himself pinched in
cket. He will not know whom to
ame, and probably will say it is his
Ife's fault."
We did not need the statement of
the learned professor though his
is first class testimony to know
that the cost of living Is constantly
Increasing, and that wages are not
increasing in proportion. We do not
even need the government statistics
to ascertain this, for everybody can
see it in his own experience, but the
government officially declares the
fact.
If this is to go on for at least
nine years more; If after the tem
porary break of last year the "era
of prosperity" is to continue for nine
years more, with the cost of living
constantly going up and wages ris
ing but little, in what condition will
the workingmen be by that time?
Will it have been a period of pros
perity for them? How can the mil
lions of wage earners prosper on a
slightly Increasing income and a
heavily increasing outgo? There is
this to be considered, however; in
such a period there is a big, active
demand for labor, so that most wage
earners of all kinds can find steady
employment, while in a period of low
prices wages are low, and besides
that many people cannot get work at
any price. So on the whole, it may
be argued, high prices are best. But
can this large increase of cost of liv
ing and small increase of wages go
on forever or Indefinitely? Must
there not be a limit to it? And
when that limit is reached, what will
happen? Will Professor Johnson
put on a. pair of strong spectacles
and answer our "And then"?
There is a very practical, import
ant lesson for all wage earners in
this state of affairs. They may not
be able to change - conditions by
thinking and talking about them, but
they can be provident, economical,
prudent. Nearly all of them can
thus lay up something from week
to week, from month to month, from
year to year, against the colder,
darker days that may come. Most
of them can manage even to get
bomes of their own. According to
this learned man's prediction, they
can tip this more easily now than
they can later. Having done this,
they will be independent, in ease,
when the dark time comes. The
government is never going to help
them much; they must help them
selves, and provide for themselves
against the future.
IDENTIFICATION
T
ESTIMONY as to identity is al
ways to be regarded with cau
tion. Here are several intelli
gent, conscientious people with
good visual capacity who declared
that Burks, so-called, was not one
of the train robbers, particularly not
the one who menaced the engineer
for a long time with ' a revolver.
Barks, they said, did not exactly
correspond with the robber In any
particular, indeed scarcely resembled
him; yet Burks, who seems deter
mined to convict himself, convinced
them by a recital of incidents which
only he and they could have known
that he was the man. To turn the
case about, many a wrong person has
been positively identified. A crime
has been committed; some one re
sembling the guilty person is caught
and Identified by the victim perhaps
by others, ' who swear positively to
bis Identity with the culprit; and
yet It turns out that he was entirely
innocent; tArid bow1 often- is thls
the fact when it does not so turn
out, and an Innocent person puffers
for a guilty one?. Doubtless many
a negro has been lynched on hasty
and mistaken or careless identifica
tion. Next to expert testimony as
to handwriting, that of identifica
tion of a stranger is the moat un
reliable. ' ' ' 1
AN IRRESISTIBLE MOVEMENT
A'
WASHINGTON' dlspateft to The
Journal may not exaggerate
when it says that the recent
fifth meeting' of the Rivers
and Harbors congresB "marked an
epoch in the' economic history of the
nation."
This movement for better and
more steady, energetic and system
atic improvement of rivers and bar
bors, and for sufficient and regular
appropriations therefor, began sev
eral years ago, and has now reached
the stage of positive, marked , in
fluence. In connection, with the In
land Waterways and Conservation
commissions, this influence will soon
become irresistible, and the oppo
sition of Cannon and other fossils
and reactionaries will become futile
The objection that It would not
be wise to issue bonds to the extent
of 1500,000,000 until it was fully
and finally decided just where and
how the money should be expended
Is sufficiently answered by Repre
sentative Ransdell when he says
that the bonds need not be issued
until needed; what is sought now
is the positive governmental adop
tion of this policy, assurance tfiat
It will be promptly and persistently
carried out, and means provided for
doing so as soon and as fast as is
practicable.
The war in Venezuela has begun,
but Gomez being on the ground
ought to have the better of Castro,
who is far awaf.
Let tfirs From tlie People
Letter to The Journal iboalrl be written on
oo aide of the paper only, and ettonld bo ac
companied by the naroa and addreaa of tbe
writer. The name wUl not b ned If the
writer aaka that tt be withheld. The Journal
la not to be understood aa lndorafn tha Tlewa
or atatementa of eorreapnnrlenta. Letter ahonld
be made aa brief aa fykalbta. Thoee wbo wlah
their lettera returned whenxnot need ahonld ta-
eloee poetaa-o.
rnmannnrtna n notified that letter x.
eeedlnf 300 word la length may. t he dis
cretion Tne editor, ne cue aowa iu met
Vitrified Street Paving.
Portland. Or.. Dc. 14. to th Editor
of The Journal The slogan and onn
of tha paramount sentiments of every
progressive citizen Is, and ougnt to De.
better streets In the cities. And better
hlarhwav In the country are the grow
In b: Imoulse and should be the ambition
of all. Therefore, the Inspiring cause
of this article Is to attract the attention
and elicit the interests of etperts and
adepts in earths and minerals that can
be fused, that are lying adjacent to the
street or road; by means of a portable
melting furnace, to bevborne along (as
the work progresses) by a traction en
gine with ample power to drive all the
machinery requisite to tne worar.
But the greatest difficulty arises from
the prevailing feeling among profession
al 'men and experts along this line that
thttt which has never been done cannot
be done. But if this article attracts the
attention of some foundryman, artisan,
machinist, mineraJoglt , or practical
glass manufacturer who will communi
cate with O. M. Pringle. 921 East Burn-
side street, Portland, Or., the object of
this communication will havs been at
tained. I think the practicability of the
scheme ran be easily demonstrated, and
that It Is destined to revolutionize all
road, street, dam and retaining wall
building, and lessen the cost from one
half to two thirds. O. M.-PRINGLE.
A Great, Commendable Movement.
From the Brooklyn Eagle.
Obviously, transportation facilities
must be Increased and enlarged. If tha
increase and enlargement of railroad
facilities cannot be made then it fol
lows that they must come from the
utilization of our inland waterways
the utilization of pur wasted natural re
sources. The movement therefore. Is
to be commended. - It Is a great work
that should be done greatly. A half
billion of dollars will be by no means
too large a sum to be expended with
resulting benefits as set forth in the
report of, the commission In view. It
would not be too large a sum expended
over 10 years, If it will Insure us
against periods of freight congestion
such as marked the winters of 1908 and
1907.
But the movement has struck a snag
In the' opposition , of Speaker Cannon.
He opposes tha proposition of Issuing
bonds for the purpose. He would have
congress make the appropriations for
the purpose biennially, and he would
have those appropriations limitedper
haps to $20,000,000. His view, as h
disclosed in his speech before tha com
mission and its . conferees. Is a narrow
one. But be is a- man. In the speaker's
chair, of such power that he is for
midable, Therefore, his declaration tf
views is disturbing Clearly "Uncle Joe"
must be educated to the necessities and
the great value of the work.
This Date in History. y
Ull More than 100 .persons per
ished in the burning of ' theatre in
Richmond, Vs. .-, '" '
1829 A party of Choctaws attacked
a camp of Osaare Indians on the Can
adian river and . killed seven of their
number. - - - , .
- 1837 -Admiral George Dewey of the
United States navy born In Montpeller,
vt, . . - -
1818 Morgan ' 8. Bulkeley. governor
of Connecticut and United States sen
ator, born In East Haddam, Conn.
' 1847 Hugh Conway, poet and novel
ist, born. Died May 15. 1885.
1861 -Federal . force captured Tybee
Island.
1887 David Howard Harrison became
premier of Manitoba. 7 .
1900 President Paul Kruger arrived
In Paris. . ,
Francis Brown's Birthday.
Dr. Francis Brdwn, president of the
Union Theological -seminary and one
of the most distinguished Hebrew schol
ars in America, was born at Hanover,
N. H.. December 28, 1849, and received
nts rirst aispioma of graduation from
Phillips
academy- in 11(8
Later he
studied
at Dartmouth
coll ere and at
the Union Theological seminary. - He
also spent some years In study abroad.
In 1890 Dr. Brown became professor
of Hebrew and cornste languages in th
Union Theological seminary and laat
spring he wss chosen president of the
seminary to succeed the late Dr. Charlea
Culhbert Hall. - For his distinguished
contributions in the, field of learning
Dr. Brown has been rewarded with hon
orary degrees rrem lea dinar universities
in Americas and Eurooa.
COMMENT AND
SMALL CHANGE
O, the wretched day after!
A normal Christmas, as to weather
wet, Perjury is considered a' small crime
beside murder,-- ., ;
'..
Have you noticed that the days are
setting longer 7
Don't worry yet; it's a week till the
month s bills come due.
-
Some of the Christmas spirit should
extend throughout the year.
Next Christmas we
will have lion or tiger for. his Christmas
dinner. , i
Some people may be congratulating
themselves because they put off buying
them till too late.
"Colossal fortunes are on trial in thin
country,'' says Dr. Scburman, - Bet a
iuiiuuu vary wiu De acquitted. - .
We don't hear munh n thar "nnWh
nd" any more. In its former sense, it
u yi jr mucn disappeared. ,
Christmas was made" partly to soften
VP tha. tisht-wada Salem Statesman.
If so, it is in that respect a failure.
If Uncle Sam had riven fhrlntmaa
.
preaems, mat aencit would have mount-
d up to nocKeieiier-UKe propositions.
The President's onlnintTa an flavor
permitted to merely leak out. Chicago
Record-Herald. ; No. they are unnul.H
A man may a area in a-eneral with the.
Roosevelt policies without Indorsing
everything that Roosevelt does and
ays. .
A Umatilla countv man named Card
and his wife have- sued each other for
divorce. They want the Judge to cut
the Cards.
' .-
The Castellans kids are 'lucky in
escaping the custody of Bonl providing
they don't come within seeing or smell
ing distance of De Sugan.
Two' Massachusetts rlrls had a regu
lar pugilistic contest Thursday. Now
will those who make the excuse that
women should not vote because they
can't fight cease their opposition to
woman suffrage. ,
Kaiser William, like President-elect
Taft, has announced that-fce will drink
no more. Being broke, on only 810,000,-
000 a year, he can t afford to.
John D. Rockefeller's Income or fi
nancial gains this year amount It is
id, to iso.uuo.uuu. tie can- give away
ill, JK ..111 V.
ai lew minium ,nu on,, ua iim-wj. du
long as he does not have to pay that
fine. ,
.
A Chlcaarn wnman offered a nrlze'of
8100 for the beat verses favorable to
municipal suffrage for women, the same
to be sung to the music of "The Battle
Hvmn'of the Republic." and a sample
of the thousands of competing poems
reads: . ;. , : .
It Is a burning shame that you should
shoulder an tne cares
When we are willing to be your helpers
and the mayor s. ,
This should appeal to Mayor tane.
who, however, has long been a woman
suffragist. .
FAMOUS GEMS pV PROSE
"Tne Example of Wsning;ton
(From an. oration by the famous min
ister to England on "The Progress of
lberty in One Hundred Tears," at
Taunton, Mass., July 4, 1876.)
One of the strongest muniments to
save us from all harm Is the example
of Washington. Far be It from me to
ralae up a vlalonary Idol. I nave uved
too long to trust in mere panegyric.
Fulsome eulogy of any man raises with
me only a smile. Indiscriminate lauda
tion Is equivalent to falsebod. wann
ing; ton. as I understand him. was gifted
with nothing ordinarily defined as gen
ius, and he had not had great advantages
of education. His intellectual powers,
were clear but not much above the
average men of his time. What knowl
edge he possessed had been gained from
association with others in his long pub
lic career, rafber than by secluded study.
As an actor he scarcely aistinguisned
himself by more than one brilliant
stroke; As a writer the great part of
his correspondence . discloses nothing
more than average natural good sense.
On the field of battle his powers pale
before the splendid strategy of Napoleon
Bonaparte.'
Tet, notwithstanding all these deduc
tions, the thread of his- life from youth
to age displays a maturity of Judgment,
consistency of principle, a steadiness
of action, a discriminating wisdom, and
a purity of purpose hardly found united
to the same extent in any otner instance
can recall In history. Of his entire
disinterestedness in all his pecuniary re
lations with, tbe public, it is needless tor
me to speak; more than all, and above
all, he was master of himself. If there
be one quaVqty mora than another In
his character which may exercise a use
ful control over the men of tha present
hour. It la the total disregard of self,
when In the most elevated positions for
influence and example.
The star of Napoleon was Just rising
to Its zenith as that of Washington ,
passed away. In point of .military gen-j
lus Napoleon probably eqiieled, if he did I
Through the Cascades by Electricity.
From Electric News,
Passenger trains hauled by electric lo
comotives will be running through the
Cascade tunnel of the -Great Northers
railroad before January 1, 1909. The
electrification of this long tunnel, which
has been a source . of trouble and an
noyance since the road was built, is th
largest undertaking of Its kind ever at
tempted In the west, and the Great
Northern Is the first of the great west
ern roads to adopt electric propulsion
for any considerable portion of its road.
Not only la the Cascade development
the largest of Its kind In the west, but
It Is the first three phase railroad sys
tem to be Installed in this country and
one of the first in the world. The most
unusual feature of this electric service,
as planned by the General Electrlo com
pany's engineers, Is the fact that the
motors, which pull tha electric locomo
tives' and trains up the grades, will nat
urally and Inherently become" genera
tors on the down grades and return elec
trical energy to the line.
The Caacade tunnel is a little less
than three miles In length. The elec
trification of this division will eliminate
the present congestion of traffic, be
cause steam locomotives cannot pass
through tha great bore very often on ac
count of tha stifling gases and deadly
smoke. The danger of suffocation will
be removed and the traffic cost will also
be lowered, as the electricity used is
manufactured in the vicinity from wa
ter power. -
The Great Northern has secured the
rights and titles for enough water pow
er along the Wenatchee to develop 100,
000 horsepower and it is said, Upon good
NEWS IN BRIEF ,
OREGON SIDELIGHTS.
Medford Socialists havs nominated a
city ticket.
1 Many road districts are voting ape
clal taxes for good roads
"if ?
Wheat crop prospects were never bet
ter at a year s end in eastern uregon.
The Astoria Budget Issued 'a large,
valuable and very, creditable special
Uhriatmaa edition,
e -
Over 300 men and 210 head of stoc
rock
ta04.
are now worklnar on the rsrUroad-'W'tekL
a radius of a few miles of (Klam&tfl
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Corvallls Times: The packing houses
now being erected at Portland will re
quire large numbers of hogs. Dairying
and hog raising go together. Benton
county has much land good for dairying
purposes, and oould produce- many hogs
for the Portland markets Take the ad
vice of a college professor and save the
calves. Let the calves become milkers,
furnish local creameries with butter fat.
and feed the separated milk to hogs. ,
' ' Owing to the fact that the excellent
qualities of southern Oregon rranlte are
gaining a reputation in other sections
of the state and in California, the Ore
gon Granite company has found It Decen
ary to open a branch of lice and shop In
Eugene and . Is already contemplating
one . In Portland, says - the Medford
Tribune. . The company contemplates
erectlne-new shops near Medford.. De
velopment work on the. quarry is being
rushed. .
The ' Roseburg Review ' says that It
sincerely believes that Roseburg has al
ready lost more than $38,000 which is
tha total of the proposed bond issue by
not getting the paving .work started
last fall as planned. Tne councllmen
wbo opposed the bond issue should let
the fact penetrate their minds that the
people of Roseburg are decidedly in
favor of street paving and are- not in
any mood lay stand any further "rag
chewing" ower the several kinds of pave
ment proposed.
The hobo nuisance Is again becoming
very conspicuous In Roseburg, an aver
age of 100 of these persons passing
through the city daily, most of whom
are north bound, says the News. The
hobo camp, situated along the river in
the vicinity of the brickyard Is said to
be alive day and night with these indi
viduals, among whom are many mere
boys ranging In age from 12 to 20
years. The officers are powerless to
quell their intrusion.
Tbe Dalles Optimist: That Oregon is
likely to lose the only sugar beet fac-
....... u. L . I- - A J . . T
iuij - wo nave, ma una luuniru i ai i.ei
Grande, is more than a probability. But !
will it be a great evil? We think noM
In the long run. It may cause some
inconvenience, some loss, ror a time.
nut in tne end it win give us a vaiu
able fruit acreage where beets are now
grown. We really believe that ror the
benefit of the state at large the sooner
the factory is closed the, better.
President French of tha Wlston Nor
mal school has been attending a
teachers' Institute In Harney countv.
a ad saya that county "la a most prom
isins- nl ace to Invest money. Settlers
are coming In by the hundreds and land
is yet cheap, some or tne most ex
tensive and richest valleys In the west
He in that county as yet undeveloped,
waiting -for opening."'; Many teachers
had to come on horebaek 90 or 40 miles
through snow, but all the teachers or
the county out, two were present.
By Charles Francis Ada
mi
not excel, any person known In history.
In regard to the direction of the In
terests of a ' nation, he may have occupied
a very high place. ' He Inspired an
energy and vigor In the veins of the
French people which they safly needed
after the demoralising sway of centuries
of Bourbon kings. With even a small
modicum of the wisdom so prominent In
Washington," he, too, might have left
a people to honor his memory down to
the latest times. But it was not so to
be. Do you ask the reason? It Is
this. His motives of action always
centered In self. His example give's a
warning, but not a guide. Had Napoleon
copied tha example of Washington, he
would have been the Idol of all later
generations In France; for Washington
tohave copied the example of Napoleon,
would have been simply impossible.
Let us, then, discarding all Inferior
strife, hold up to our children the ex
ample of Washjngton as the symbol,
not merely of wisdom, but of purity and
truth. Let us labor continually to keep
the advance in civilization as It becomes
us to do after the struggles of the past,
so that the right to life, to liberty, and
the pursuit of happiness, which we have
honorably secured, may be firmly en
tailed upon the ever enlarging genera,
tlons of mankind. '
And what is it, I prsy you tell roe.
that has brought us to a celebration of
Washington's birthday? , Is It not the
steady cry of excelsior Up to the most
elevated regions of political purity, s'e-
cured to us by the memory of those
who have passed before' us, and conse
crated the very ground occupied by their
ashes? Gloriously,; Indeed, may it be
aid of it In the words of tha poet:
"What'e hallowed ground? 'Tls what
gives birth v u ; , t
To sacred thoughts In souls of worth.
Peace, Independence,. Truth, go forth.
Earth's compass roun!; -' '
And your high priesthood shall make
v earth. ' " . .
All hallowed ground."
authority, that several of the heavy
grades near the tunnel will also be elec
trified in the near future, and . it la
prophesied that tha entire western di
vision win be run by electricity within
a few years. t ' r
While this railroad 1s the first in the
west to adopt electricity se a motive
power to any great extent, it Is passing
evident that It will not be the last, as
nearly every railroad In that section,
from the Canadian Pacific to jthe South
ern Pacific. Is planning mere or hss
electrification work, which will be start
ed during the coming year.
Would Better Trust the People.
From the Brooklyn Eagle.
Other administrations before that of
Mr. Roosevelt have been as bitterly ar
raigned as his on eharges quite as spe
cific and scandalous as that . relating
to the purchase of the Panama canal.
Other presidents before Mr. Roosevelt
notably Abraham . Lincoln. . Ulysses 8.
Grant and Grover - Cleveland were the
victims of attacks that carried oritlclam
Into the realm of the .libelous and the
malignant. Yet they took no recourse
to the courts either for their administra
tions; or themselves. ; They - trusted ' to
'time and to tha good sense of . the
American people for their vindication,
and they did not trust In vain. ; .--..
" .' , " True to Life. -V-";'
V From Lustige Welt
Photographer (to young man) It will
make a much better pIctuYe if you. put
your hand on your father's shoulder.
The Father Huh! It would be much
more natural If he had his hand in
my pocket! '
Proposed Bond Issue
' Waterways
tor
. Zn point of attendance and . interest
and the work accomplished, tba Na
tional Rivers and y Harbors congress,
through Its fifth annual convention, held
during the second week of December,
marked an, epoch In the economic hiatory
Of the nation. - And the resolutions.
Which were unanimously adopted by the
convention fearlessly went upon record
for bond issue of $500,000,000 to im
prove the rivers and harbors of the
United States "as shall be authorised
by congress, said bonds to be sold from
time to time end In anch nTiontlrloa mm
jT&rajrhe necessary ,She provisions for the
issuance or saia Donas to De simitar to
those authorising the bonds for the con
struction of the Panama canal. .
This action on the part of the Na
tional Rivers and : Harbors congress,
was the culmination of the campaign of
education begun several years ago, the
piecemeal appropriations on the part of
the Congress of the United States, . by
river and harbor bills, In no sense out
lining" a fixed and comprehensive policy
of waterway improvement, commen
surate with tha ever increasing demands
of trade and commerce.
Notwithstanding the objection entored
by Speaker Cannon to ' the bond issue
feature of tha resolutions, the oommlttee
on resolutions, representing all sections
of tha country, had no differences as to
the need of fixed annual appropriations
for Waterway development and they be
lieved the time ripe for an explicit dec
laration to that end. The time for ar
gument had gone by with tha 8600 dele
gates who were In attendance upon the
convention, tbe time for aotlon waa at
hand. . . ' 1 . ',
Representative Ransdell of Louisiana,
president of the National Rivers and
Harbors congress, who has for many
years been an active, earnest worker
for a comprehensive plan of waterway
betterments; in explaining the action of
the congress over which he presided.
said: "Nobody . contemplates the issu
ance of $500,000,000 of bonds at one
time. All we plan Is -to have bonds
Issued from time to time as needed.
These -bonds are for permanent works,
for work Just as permanent and possi
bly more so than the Panama canal and
destined for the same commercial uses.
These works are not alone for ourselves,
they are for posterity as well and should
be paid for, at least In part, by it.
By the authorization of the Issu
ance of $500,000,000 of bonds to carry
out a broad and comprehensive pulley
of waterway Improvements wa are but
Imitating the wise example of the rail
roads who make money by borrowing
money to be used for line extensions,
thereby Increasing the means of hand
ling traffic.
"If it should be found that sufficient
money cannot be appropriated from our
rent revenues to carry- on the work of
completing water projects under way
and the beginning of -new ones ap
proved by the board of army engineers,
then there should be sold sufficient
waterway bonds from time, to time, so
that each year will find the work of
Improving our rivers, harbors, and
canals steadily going on to flnal com
pletlon, . ,
"In 1901 the congress of the United
States authorised the issuance of 8180,
000,000 of Panama bonds to be sold as
needed. With the. $30,000,000 Issued the
other day the amount of the Panama
bond issue up to this time Is 884,631,
980, extending .over a period of nearly
six years.
"As a large deficit Is In sight, to be
exact, $58,070,201 for the fiscal year
ending June 30, 1908, for the next fiscal
year as per the estimate of the secre
tary of the treaaury $114,000,000, and
$143,000,000 for the fiscal year ending
June 80, 1910, It Is clear that only by a
bond Issue can the work of waterway
development on a comprehensive plan
proceed. It will take but $10,000,000 a
year aoout tne cost or one battleship
to pay 3 per cent on the proposed $500,
000,000 bond issue. And this sum wisely
spent on our watercourses, our rivers
and our harbors will save the people
more than $500,000,000 annually in re
duced freight rates." . '
Proposed Waterway Improvements.
From the St Paul Pioneer Press.
The plan proposed by tha waterway
advocates has nothing In common with
a general policy of bond issues, for per
manent improvements. ' It is essentially
different It la definite, not Indefinite.
It wholly eliminates the log rolling- fea
ture and with it the evils that spring
therefrom. It is, not proposed that con
gress issue bonds the proceeds of which
shall be spent how, where and when
congress pleases. On the-contrary, it Is
exactly that Irresponsible, haphazard,
foolish method of expenditure against
which the waterway advocates are con
tending. They would be the last to ask
for a multiplication of the waste ttiey
are endeavoring to prevent' It is exactly
to prevent further waste that they pro
pose, a bond Issue under the terms and
conditions which are the essential fea
tures of that project They would not
advocate bonds If congress could be de
pended On, without an annual wrangle
and without Imposing unwise conditions,
to appropriate neither more .nor less
than would ba demanded. It is merely
because the current revenues are uncer
tain, and because the temper of con
gress from session to session is still
more uncertain, and most of all because
they want tq put a stop to log rolling,
waste, extravagance and folly that they
offer the suggestion of $500,000,000 of
bonds. '"
Tha. terms and conditions which, wa
repeat are the essential features of the
project of the waterway advocates are
(1) that the proceeds or as much thero-
a as 'anaif Vv a 4rti r A nanaaan nksll V
expended, not according to the direction
or congress, out under tne supervision
of a commission of experts in such
places,' for such works and' In such
amounts as will produce the moat per
manent and most effective results in tha
shortest time and for tha least money;
(1) that the bonds shall only be Issued
from time to time in such quantities as
the progress of the work demands. That
such a commission as would be appoint
ed by Taft or by Roosevelt would spend!
the money not only Judiciously but eco
nomically tha country's experience with
tbe irrigation commission proves. As a
matte' of , fact except by the appoint
ment of a commission, mads wholly In
dependent of congress for appropria
tions, there can be no systematic, no
wise and no economical development of
the waterway systems of this country:
and a commission can only be made In
dependent of - constant congressional In- .
terference by authorizing, as In tha case
of the. Panama canal, a bond Issue to ba
taken advantage of as needs (require. ,
With such an assurance a general plan
of Improvement can be mapped out and
proseouted continuously to. completion.
. Post Mortem Fame.
From the Kansas City Times. ""'
"Despite all your wealth1 said the
cynic, "your very name will be gen
erally forgotten in 20 years after your
death." .v '
"No, it won't'' replied the financier!
my estate is large enough to keep the
helits squabbling longer than that."